fine, i was just with him. a spokesperson tells axe bc 7 news the company does not comment on individual accounts for privacy reason autos coming up in about 10 minutes we'll go live to bloomberg west for reaction at how the markets were able to bounce back. >> apple beat estimates today with sales of iphone and ipad leading the way. >> wall street then reacted favorably. apple stock back over $400 a share. abc 7 news david louie outside headquarters. >> apple stock fell 18% as it saw growth. however smrks people saying apple is facing a growing image problem. >> the ipad continues to be the product keeping apple

going. ceo tim cook told reporters he's very frustrated by the decline in his stock price. the secrecy could be one liability. speculation is rampant about what it's going to create next, an update or a game change nug product. because they don't want to buy something soon to be upgraded. it could create negative speculation. >> there is a lot of speculation about have they lost their edge? not able to bring new products to market anymore? >> consumers able to name other companies as innovateors. >> samsung right now, or google. >> google made a splash with its experimental glasses. and with self driving car. >> apple hardware is amazing but have you seen the google

tab blet? it has a better screen. >> if that thinking spreads apple could be facing a challenge. >> are they still cape beable of bringing out something you didn't know you wanted then convincing millions of people to go buy it? >> apple announced raises by shareholders and apple sitting on a $145 billion in cash and short term investments. that number keeps growing. in cupertino david louie abc 7 news. >> thank you, david. >> racial slurs spray painted on a car and some of the graffiti covers this sports car happened this morning on 56th street blocks from children's hospital. car's owner awoke to find two racial slurs on the car. >> i think it's ridiculous bewe have bem walking around with this mentality.

i grew up in this neighborhood have been here over 40 years and i never have seen this. >> the owner hasn't found out how much to repair her vehicle. >> sky 7 above a fire burning today, you can see smoke seeping from the second story apartment. and from the ground level you can see flames through this destroyed balcony area. the fire started around 11:00 this morning in yosemite drive. it's not clear what caused it. there are no injuries reported here. a proposed law would make it harder for california cities to ban pan handling if passed would it ban police from citing homeless people for a variety of infractions. >> i am not out breaking into cars or committing crimeses just sitting here. i pan handle. that is it.

>> they bother people. >> many businesses and local governments oppose the law they're worried it will lead to lawsuits. the bill passed the assembly committee today. >> the ground disappeared beneath this home today. nobody was hurt. the local building inspector red tagged the home. it appears a broken water pipe is to blame. a fiss umplt re just opened up. the landslide cracked the home's foundation. an alert tow truck driver called 911. >> something like an earthquake cutoff our hetch hetchy water split main back up would be a reservoir in alameda county. but upgrades there have just hit a snag and the project will take two years longer and millions more than expected.

>> some day this hole will be filled with water, held back by a new dam. the 88-year-old dam is not safe ask an earthquake on the fault just yards away could cause lick faction at the base. the sf p.u.c. has known that since late 1990s and since 2001 the reservoir has been filled only to 40% of capacity that. way if the dam goes water should not cause damage downstream. work supposed to be done in 2015 but now will be another two years, 2017 before it's completed and an ancient landslide discovered on a slope and while the 20 mile milin year old fossils are interesting, problem is unstable geology. the project had to be redesigned. >> just a piece of the water

supply. >> it's continuing to supply water to customers. we won't be able to have full use until the project is complete. it's important for to us continue moving forward. >> the money from a bond measure must ab proved by the supervisors. >> spencer christian is off but sandhya pat jell here. >> changes out there. >> absolutely. temperatures running cooler across the bay area. checking out live doppler 7 hd you'll see y we have fog near the coast. here is a view from our mount tamalpais camera. you can see the fog dropped our temperatures along the coast. san francisco 73 so far. sfo running 15 degrees cooler.

it's 18 degrees cooler now compared to yesterday at this time in mountain view. here are the wind speeds, you can see it's an onshore wind bringing cooler air in. so breeze helping to take those temperatures down as well. here is a look at the first forecast. coastal fog, foggy at the beaches, upper 40s to mid-50s for morning and afternoon. cooling trend with upper 50s to low 80s, i'll be back with the accu-weather forecast which includes the weekend in just a few minutes. >> thank you. >> still ahead government issues guidelines making it tougher to become zraktsed while driving. >> and we know the gender of the baby falcons on top of san jose city hall. >> and new at 4:30 extending bar hours to 4:00 a.m. arguments against the idea.

>> michael finney will answer your questions live in just a few minutes. taking a look at san francisco skyway now for drivers making their way south on 101 moving along well but it's a slow crawl to those folks heading east across the bay bridge. stay with us. abc 7

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crop dropped all charges against a mississippi man accused of sending ricin laced letters to barack obama and other senators he just addressed reporters saying he's looking forward to seeing his family. critics call the situation overwhelming and said he didn't know what ricin was. >> i respect president obama. i love my country and would never do anything to pose a threat to him or any other u.s. official. >> curtis's release a day after investigators found no evidence of the poison in his home or car. his attorneys saying curtis had been treated well. authorities searched the home of another man in this case. >> the federal government issued new guidelines today to make it tougher for drivers to become distracted by navigation or other high tech systems in cars. new cars. the guidelines advise car

makers against installing system that's let's drivers push buttons or manually input data while driving. voice activation systems are fine but the department of transportation says drivers should not have to take eyes off the road more than two seconds at a time. >> new research suggests it's just as unsafe to use a voice detect mobile app while driving as it is if you tempt manually. found response times were lower -- slower no matter which method people were using. drivers spent less time looking at the road and u.s. transportation department says 387 injure td in 2011. >> koor prit earnings season in s.in full swing. >> emily chang is live with today's after the bell report. hi, emily. >> good afternoon. facebook is ramping up efforts with a new overhaul of the

pages service. the app features wireless devices the first upgrade to start on mobile. pages let's businesses communicate with customers showcase products and more and will start first on apple products with a roll out to android next month. falling land line revenue push at and t revenue down, sales fell 1.4%. the company posted a rise in profits and at and t added 296,000 contract customers in the quarter. growth meant at and t got hit with higher charges. verizon wireless reached a deal to sent the upcoming smart phone, the first time it's selling high-end lumia. nokia windows phones struggled to gain market shares.

>> the market managing a quick rebound from a nosedive following that errent ap tweet. and remember when oracle team usa kappa marchan cap sized destroying the yacht larry ellison was going to use in the america's cup race? oracle just launched ac 72, designed to twafl twice the speed of wind. team usa will be ahead of the races in san francisco this summer. at bloomberg studios in san francisco, i'm emily chang, back to you. >> thank you. >> mike shumann was out there today so we'll have more in the bay tonight on the news at 6:00. >> emily, thanks. abc 7 and job journal co-sponsored the event at the

embassy suites. the employers included private companies and government agencies and some conducted interviews on the spot. also job seekers had a chance to meet with coaches. >> now, we know it's a boy. it's three boys. >> a biologist went to determine the sex of beloved falcon checks, repelling off the roof of the city hall building into the nest box of the family. >> the parents made a lot of noise trying to scare him away but you can see the birds trying to dive bomb him. there, they're going after him but he was able to check on the chicks so here there are. you can check them out. the contest now underway to name the baby falcons. his name is glenn stewart. one boy glenn, one stewart. >> look at lengths he's going

to. >> i vote for larry, spencer and michael. >> yes. yes. >> there is. >> not that we're into self promotion. >> and sandhya is in for spencer. >> right. and i vote for that. today, we hung on to warmth. we had mid-80s inland but you felt the cooling with that fog. right now we'll talk about changes underway. you can see the fog hugging the coast here. so temperatures are responding. looking back towards the golden gate bridge you can see the fog going to be with us. and temperatures will continue to drop off. 58 degrees now in san francisco. it is 66 in oakland. half moon bay, 54 with fog. the view looking back towards

the west you can see sutro tower there. 70 degrees in santa rosa now. 79 in napa. livermore 83 degrees. highlights we're looking at cooler days through thursday and a milder pattern setting up for the weekend. so if you have plans the cool down continues through thursday. we have a stronger sea breeze, wind is bringing cooling with it. and that will be with us into the next couple days. tomorrow morning watch out for fog near the coast. low visibility expected. temperatures upper 50s to mid-50s so a cooler night. and 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, the fog never clears the coast.

we'll keep you into 50s and 60s there. inland into low 80s but coming down from today's high temperatures so far. 75 in morgan hill. 61 in santa cruz. mid 70s in palo alto. half moon bay, 58 degrees. a nice day in downtown san francisco. and santa rosa, 72. up to low 80s for clear lake. head out towards east bay, oakland, union city 72 degrees. inland communities closer to average at this time of the year. 79 in livermore. 77 concord. sheer look at the accu-weather forecast. we're going to go low 70s so a good drop from yechld we're

going to see temperatures slowly coming up in time for the weekend. low 80s inland. mid-60s on the coast. >> thank you. >> still ahead reese witherspoon like have you never seen her before. the arrest video. next. >> and after 4 thirts buster posey and barry zito ditching cleats for a

reese witherspoon arrest shows the movie star in handcuffs. atlanta police department released this video of reese being led out of the patrol car. she's taken inside for a mug shot. she was arrested for disorderly conduct. they did not release the video of her yelling at police officers at the scene. police say she interfered with a drunk driving arest. witherspoon will go to a pretrial intervention program and she did apologize. >> actor ben afleck ready for a new challenge. planning to participate in the live below the poverty line challenge as a fund raising event participants live on $1:50 a day for a week. he hopes by participating in this challenge he can raise

money for his eastern congo initiative. >> more news now, mark wahlberg talking about his weight gain and neil diamond inspired in by boston. >> we start today with singer neil diamond hoping his music can offer comfort to victims in bostonful he surprised red sox fan was a live performance of "sweet caroline". now he says he's writing a new song not just about the situation in boft yn but what the country has been going through with tragedies. it's a big week for singer barbara streisand. she's celebrating her 71 birthday wednesday and last night received a huge honor. a lifetime achievement award from film society of lincoln center. streisand now joins ranks of actors clik clint eastwood and jane fonda. premier of the body building crime comedy, plark wahlberg is ripped in

this movie chatting about the weight he had to gain to get there. >> so getting to eat whaifr was a blast until reality sets n then, it becomes a task but in order to play the part and with believable that, is what i did. for updates throughout the day like on the red carpet in facebook. >> he looked large. >> yes. >> still head we're felling the affects of the spending cuts especially at the airport what. a top senator needs to do. >> and the fight over a new school ground breaking that has some neighbors unhappy. >> and one

boston bombings raising concerns about immigration reform. >> abc 7 news mark matthews is here now with reaction from a task force on immigration reform that met today in menlo park. >> former secretary of state rice headlined the meeting. there were a number of heavy hitters responding to what happened in a senate immigration hearing on capitol hill.

saying the boston bombing is a warning and proceed with caution. >> background checks on 12 million people here illegally or anything like they were in the boston bomber we're in serious trouble. >> former republican representative from arizona said there is nothing wrong with going slow. >> house is probably going to slow down process. >> but there was no support for holding up the bill. >> this is better to deal with it in a positive way. >> hailey barber tolls me reform legislation ought to be slow but not because of boston. i think we don't want to do a bill here where there is everybody saying what is in it. >> he says there is no need to slow down deliberations over

the bill just pay close attention to the details. >> don't rush. and issue go through. look at the circumstances resolving around these people and boston deal, we should see what makes the system not work or did the system work as expected but you shouldn't slow down the big process because there is no need to. >> a young woman whose parents were in the country illegally challenged the task force to explain why family ought to take a back seat to work when it comes to deciding who gets to imgreat to the united states that. is the story we're working on at 6:00. >> alameda county supervisors volted to support a resolution urging the sheriff's department not to report certain immigrants to federal authorities.

asking the sheriff not to comply with secure communities. placing a hold on undocumented immigrants so they can be picked up by agents. >> well over a thousand people in this county had been deported the majority did not commit serious crimes. the intent is being lost. >> the sheriff says shofr officers work on a case by case base dwrois determine who gets reported to authorities. >> number of people that are violent criminals all, which create public safety concerns for me. >> last december attorney general harris said the immigration holds are optional and several counties have stopped complying with federal authorities. >> senate majority leader plans to unveil new legislation to repeal cuts that are now beginning to sting.

read wants to use savings from the draw down of troops to repeel the cuts. affects are beginning to ripple throughout the government and economy. most visible was air travel delays. timing of the effort is unclear it and faces long odds. republicans will oppose the move saying the savings were never intended to be spent in the first place. two other senators urging the obama administration to post own furloughs for air traffic controllers. kansas republican say the cuts are hurting the economy. lawmakers want furloughs postponed to give time to find a remedy. air traffic control cut backs are facing delays nationwide. >> pressure building on a district attorney to resign in texas because she was found drunk driving. the video shows her losing her balance, and failing several times to try to walk a

straight line. she pleaded guilty and is serving a 45 day jail term but the 63-year-old two determine d.a.says she has no plans to quit. >> a ground breaking today, the school located on summit drive. as city leaders came out to celebrate, some are not happy bit. abc 7 news has the story. a ground breaking for the newest school in burlingame in 50 years. declining enrollment forced them to close in the 70s but that changed now. >> we have over 200 students coming to the burlingame school district over and above what is predicted three years ago. >> so you need a new school? >> we need a new school. >> it straddles burlingame and lilsboro. some don't want it back because streets and sidewalks are k.not handle more traffic

in, and out. >> this is a narrow street. getting kids in and out is a big concern. >> one of 20 neighbors filed suit against the district to stop the redevelopment of the school. others say cars go fast. >> and they speed, they go fast. we've got near miss was our dog. >> this is one of the main routes and driving requires your fall tension. there are twists and turns. and neighbors sthai is no place for a kid to be walking. >> i've been tra versing this canyon with my kids for 15 years. and i end up with near misses every day. >> the district says studies found no safety issues.

others say more schools are needed. >> it's good for the neighborhood because schools here are overloaded. >> a restraining order to stop development of the school rejected by a judge last week. and another hearing scheduled for next week but for now, the new project is on track. >> following breaking news in richmond right now, sky 7 is live over the chevron refinery. a suspicious package has been discovered found in a nonprocessing area. and no idea when that was left there. as you can see police moving here in the area of the refinery. we'll continue to monitor this for you here on air as well as twitter. a police officer being harolded for a random act of

kindness during friday's lock down. a photo of the police officer delivering mill tok a faum with young children has been shared by 100,000 people. officer bradley was asked by the childrens grandmother if he can help them by getting milk during the height of the search for the boston bombing suspects. not only did he get milk, he paid for it and refused to accept the family money. good man. >> and check out this drawing depicting michelle obama visiting aaron hern. the 11-year-old watching his mom run. and the drawing shows mrs. obama. >> still head a traffic cop on line.

>> and i'm fick mic yil finney today q and a just ahead so i'm still taking your questions. you can contact me at facebook.com/michael finney abc 7, and on twitter at m finney. i'll answer your questions here live in just a little bit. >> i'm sandhya patel, you're looking towards blue skies here and the breeze is going. it's a cooling breeze, i'll let you know how much lower temperatures will go coming up. >> and sunny skies in walnut creek now. traffic moving nicely here, stay with us.

>> two stars of giants are now fashion models. they're dressed up to grace gq. check out the pictures. bufrter posey there taking a swing at being a super model. and i'm not thinking that is a good look. either. >> he's still an mvp and take a look here. >> barry? >> this is stylish. looking cool. and that is just such a pose. >> that is the point right sf.

>> yes. zito talks about his hobby, shoot shooting firearms. he's become a gun collector. you can read bit in may issue of gq. >> well, commuting is a hassle but a traffic top kop is doing his best to entertain weary drivers. >> the 48-year-old dances through the commute he spends hours copying moistures of his favorite entertainer autos it's frightening there. you're hoping he doesn't get hit. >> i don't see a lot of cars. there is one. >> after finishing this, he goes to his real job. i says he likes to put smiles on peoples' faces. >> well, he did that. we're laughing about it. but not the downtown commute.

let's check the forecast. >> forecast going to be cooler than today. fog is going to be with us into the next two days. here is a look at the forecast for giants breezy low 60s at 7:15 so dropping to upper 50s so take a sweat:30 if you're going there. is a system going to bring rain to the east coast. 70 degrees in new york. washington, d.c. 80 degrees. the chill continues in fargo. temperatures clouds and fog in the morning. near los angeles turning sunny. yosemite, 75 degrees and 72 degrees in eureka. here in the bay area there are

temperatures into mid-80s today coming down into upper 70s and low 80s tomorrow, 77 concord, fog 5876 in napa. oakland 73 degrees. >> thank you. >> up next a wish becomes a catch of a lifetime. >> and a unique solar powered plane takes a test flight in bay area skies. what it's preparing to do next. >> is. >> is it legal for restauran

a 19-year-old from houston texas made a catch of a lifetime during his trip to hawaii. >> sterling ellis realed in an 11 foot long 759 pound marlin. it took him an hour to do it. he is in remission from hodgkin's lymphoma. >> reeling it and then, just

started going into the opposite drax. >> i my arms hurt a little bit. i i'm like i don't think i can. my arm was locked up. i can't reel. >> by just call it a blind strike out november where. just thought it was a tuna first. it did. >> that ain't no tuna. >> the rest of the massive fish will be sold by the charter boat to pay for fuel. >> wow. michael finney here answering questions sent to him by face book, twitter and e mail z joe p asked i pay my cell phone bill when it's due by verizon says the cycle goes to the 12th and if you go over data amount they can charge you the difference. how can they inflate the bill five days after i paid it?. >> you're not paying more but i wish phone companies won't do it this way.

your nod of time, 30 days for the month runs here. but billing is here. what what they do is that they bill you as if you don't have overages. does that make sense? >> makes sense but why do they do that? >> none of them do. >> yes. yes. >> next question. robert asking i receive one of the $8,000 tax credits for buying a home, now, i want to refinance. >> as longs you stay in the house three years, that is a deal for those that got the $8,000 is that you have to stay in the house three years. you can refinance all you want no. problems. however, if you move before three years you'll have to

give some back. >> all right. we have this one from jennifer ge mailed is it legal for a res strunt say it's policy not to seat a party of fwhun a certain area of a restaurant? >> they can. as long as it's knots discrimination about race, or who you are as a person any of those issues we know about as long as it's not based on that and it's based on it being because you're alone they can do it. if you don't think that is the reason i want to you contact me we'll check it out. >> up next lawmakers plan to let bart serve alcohol until 4:00 in the morning. >> some argue this is a public safety issue who. won the debate today? >> in the newsroom coming up red bag flags being raised into the hot summer months. leaders feeling the heat. and the bay area charter

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here is a look at tonight's prime time line up. aa bay area lawmaker wants to boost tourism but allowing bars to serve school kohl into the wee hours of the morning. >> opponents say it would put lives at risk. >> who won, nannette? >> opponents won. bars will remain open until 2:00 a.m. this is a defeat for san francisco. looks like new york, las vegas and miami will remain main destinations for the party crowd. a senate committee rejected a

controversial pro pose yl giving local counties and cities bar hours until 4:00 a.m. what one jurisdiction closes at 2:00 in the morning and another at 4:00 law enforcement warns a situation would create what they called liquor commuters. >> people driving to other locations and then after having consumed a substantial amount of alcohol driving back. >> low income activists pointed out there is only one problem in the state. >> you'll have three mom and pop stores with liquor license autos senator leno carried the bill insisted cities do not experience higher rates of crashes in places with normal hours so in this 24-7 society,

services need to indicater to call groups. >> not everyone is working 9:00 to 5:00 monday through friday. i think it makes sense to consider this traechl hour or two. >> some say the golden state is at a disadvantage when trying to lure tourists. robert owns six restaurants in l.a.. >> we're losing people to places like las vegas, new york, miami. people don't want to come to los angeles, san francisco, san diego. >> with this defeat supporters are now thinking about a ballot measure so voters can decide on this issue. >> if you saw something bright might have been this, take a look. it's a solar powered airplane.

>> the plane 3,000 feet up can go 30,000 feet. >> idea to show technology exists for the alternative fuel autos thanks for joining us at 4:00 i'm. >> abc 7 news at 4:00 begins right now. >> thank you. leaders in contra costa county feel the heat over a new proposal to close more fire staying autos a hacker attack that sent wall street into a three-minute free fall. >> i'm sandhya patel. natural air conditioning back with us. how long cooling trend will continue. >> good evening, i'm cheryl jennings. >> the daempk russ fire season

arrives as one county cuts back on fire protection. >> fires need quick attention but the fire department could be in trouble. four stations closed in january two, more in jeopardy because of deep cuts. laura? >> well, firefighters just pulled out spending the afternoon knocking down this they say will only get worse if there are more cuts. barely three months after closing four stations the fire department is on its way to closing two more. >> there will be station closures and less people on the streets and there will be fatality autos contra costa supervisors announced the

likely clo skmur layoff as many as eight firefighters. >> we have to live within our means. how can we do that in a safe way? we can get to sustainable. >> firefighters claim anymore reductions would put the community in danger and the new cuts numbers would drop. >> this budget is like asking concord high school to just have four teachers. >> it's a matter of money. >> chris says the fire department wants to maintain the level of series, firefighters need to make concession autos cost have risen for retiree health and pensions and paying off bonds have gone up $5.6 million. huge. so that is where expense is

like. >> accord together proposed budget, station 87 has been on the list before. and would likely be targeted again. >> we can't afford to shut down another firefighter off the streets. >> the department will look to decide which stations are candidates. a final decision isn't expected until a budget vote next month. >> thank you very much. a new chapter begins tonight in the investigation into the boston bombings. u.s. investigators are now in russia to question the parents of the bomb lg suspects. relatives say the suspect that died, tammerlan tsarnaev had fallen under the influence of

a muslim convert. the sfib trying to learn who tammerlan met with last year but claims they were aware of his travels. >> the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he turned -- returned all investigations had been closed. >> the surviving suspect has been upgraded to fair condition after suffering wounds during two shootouts with law enforcement. the number of injured including people who sought treatment now is put at 264. coming up right after this newscast you're going to hear from boat owner who helped lead police to tsarnaev and find out what he wants to do with the the outpouring of money being raised to help him buy a new boat. a terror suspect answered to charges he plot